Silks

Outwardly look like seals with brown eyes. Kind, gentle and graceful. Sealskin skins allow them to live in the sea, however they must come up from time to time to swallow air. According to some sources, silks are the descendants of people driven into the sea for their misconduct. That is why they are so drawn to land. They can come out of the water once every 9 nights. When they come out of the water, they discard the seal from themselves and take on a human form, turning, according to the stories, into dark-haired beauties or young men. If a guy or girl finds a skin thrown off silk, it can force silk to marry. Children from such marriages are born with membranes between the toes and have healing abilities. But such a marriage, as is the case with mermaids , often does not last very long.

Silks often look for a mate among people themselves. If a person finds a red hat on the shore, it means that they are interested in silk. And if he accepts the offer, then he must come the next day at sunset to the shore, where he will appear silk.

Silks are presented as peaceful and good creatures of extraordinary beauty, but they can avenge insults by causing a storm or turning over fishing boats.

Silks can be called up by sitting at night on a stone near the water and dropping seven tears into the water.

The tale says that a fisherman was walking along the shore and suddenly heard a loud laugh. He crept closer and saw young people bathing in the sea. Nearby on the sand were seal skins. The fisherman stole one of them.
When everyone else had thrown themselves into seals and sailed away, there was only one pretty girl on the shore. She begged the fisherman to give her the skin, but he refused and instead took her as a wife.
They began to live together, but the fisherman’s wife was weighed by bondage in a foreign land, and she often looked longingly at the sea. One day, the youngest daughter asked her what is this silver lying in the barn. The woman rushed into the barn, grabbed the skin and rushed to the sea. When she sailed from the shore, a boat in which a fisherman was sitting met her. He glanced at the seal and recognized the look of his wife, but it was too late. ^[one]

• The film " The Secret of Roan Inish Island ";
• The 2014 cartoon “ Song of the Sea ” by Irish director Tomm Moore : the protagonist-girl is silk, like her mother, while her father and brother are ordinary people;
• The story of Robert Holdstock "Silvering";
• Cartoon " Winx Club ": in the fifth season, fairies find the guardian silk gateway to the Boundless Ocean.
• 2009 film " Undine (film) "

• Roans